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Homi Adajania cannot be slotted as a filmmaker. He’s made an off-kilter thriller as well as a regular romcom. Spoke to the filmmaker about his dichotomous filmography and directorial choices. Your collaboration with Finding Fanny’s co-writer, Kersi Khambatta, borders on the novelistic: you first write a story, which he...

Piyush Mishra doesn’t mince words. He doesn’t need to. In an in-length in conversation with Piyush Mishra where he talks about his days in National School of Drama (NSD) and his life after it, the flippancy with which he dealt his early, formative years, his theatre days. The unending...

Kamal Swaroop is known for flouting every possible convention. I spoke to the filmmaker about his documentary on Dadasaheb Phalke, a project that’s taken two decades to materialise. When was the first time you became interested in Dadasaheb Phalke’s life? What intrigued you the most about him? I got...

Nimrat Kaur You auditioned for your role in Homeland without having watched the show. How was that experience? Yes, I hadn’t watched the show till then . But it was like any other audition. It was actually a serendipitous situation, where I ended up being in London when they...

Hemant Gaba’s Shuttlecock Boys revolves around the lives, successes and failures of four friends who hail from lower middle class backgrounds in Delhi. Should we accept what life offers to us on a platter or should we try to chase our dreams, taking the path less taken? That’s the...

SCENE Day – Exterior – Long shot. A dude in dark sunglasses and slick attire rides into the frame on a flashy green old Royal Enfield. The director yells, “Cut”. Close up: MAMMOOTTY. Mammootty jumps off the bullet, and smiles. He walks towards the technicians, and does some charismatic clowning around; very...